Goodies - Awesome!
First trophy on my trophy rack - I am in luck....
(Considering to custom make a shoulder mount trophy rack like those on terminator armor and impale it on...)
(or maybe not.)
Fanboi achievement - Fail, shy of Ultramarine the movie =..=
(see below)
Bigger, meaner, smellier thing in life - IT SUCKS.
(This is the reason I can't watch Ultramarine the movie from head to toe under supervision. Barely catch up to fetch my 2 weeks old laundry before my local friendly laundry dobi closed up and send in this batch that I packed in my car....)
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First thing first, man, Magacon is all thing geeky, huge fun! Me and my mate (Shout out: How Jit dailow and Foo Siong, SORRY DUDE, I ignored you guys half of the time to get the achievement thingy... and maybe drag you guys to be involved in one or two of my achievement thingy... =p) was trolling around, XBOX kinect, boardgames, card game (I guess my mate is starting to loath space hulk : death angel the card game already...), 40k, MTG, we've seen/try it all... good stuff. LARP is not our cuppa, but I'm secretly reading whitewolf's RPG (World of Darkness, Vampire the Requiem) and maybe... just maybe, on the next Magacon LARP, I will... consider take part of it... (or barring that, ooze out rm200 or so to get FFG's Black Crusade RPG for my reading pleasure..).
Also manage to meet Salleh (Battle Brother Bob) in 40kmalaysia forum and pestering him almost whole day to work on my achievement thingy, it's great to match another face with forum ID =D Thank you dude! for sacrificing all your fun time to baby-sit all the Fanboi through the achievement thingy!
Was VERY tempted to get Skyrim from CK Media (I brought almost all my physical PC game from them at
youbeli.com). But well, after checking my puny wallet's content and considering the outstanding mini to paint/books to read, I give it a pass~_~)
Unfortunately Space Marine the game is unable to be played at the PC gaming area too (unless you are willing to sign in your Steam account on public PC.. I'm a bit paranoid about that....), it could be a potential crowd pleaser if we can get a team of player to play the MP of Space Marine, it's fun in an old-school way (like Quake and Unreal) and could be very competitive too. (And hopefully, it could attract more potential 40k players to the miniature aspect of it!)
Manage to chat up with
Khairul and
Jeff (of
Legio fame) while they are not busy with tournament on the second day, hey Khairul, shout out to you, Thanks for letting me taking a peep on the awesome Flames Of War campaign set and imparting the knowledge of the file/sand thingy, I really don't know that we can use those on the annoying mold line/break point, I will *definately* get those and add it to my hobby arsenal =D And sorry Jeff, LOL, my english is really so-and-so and sometime when you are talking fast, I can't really get you (same applies to TJ...I hope I get his name right.. LOL, my bad) =p, but well, you had open the door for me to look into the potential of alternative paint and maybe an airbrush, man, I wish I could visit Legio more (will try to!) and chat up more with you guys!
Alvin of
Hobby Forge is as friendly as usual, and thanks for the time for the demo game, you are da man! I will try to finish my Chaos ASAP and visit forge soon for a game (don't.. steamroll me, pls, if we happen to able to get a game... as you can see from the demo game, I'm a bit (okkkeyy, maybe more than a bit) slow on rules and tactic.. LOL), and finally I manage to chat up with Yip too, ah, man, I forget to personally thank you, face to face, for the Space Hulk.
And oh, the dude on painting demo (ARRGGGHH! Sorry I didn't get your name, but I think I saw you somewhere, Comic Mart?) table too, thanks for letting me trolling around and kill time there when waiting my fren to finish his boardgame =D
Another shout out is for Wai Yan of
boardgamecafe and
OTK fame, ha, glad you still remember me =) And also Aaron and Kenny from
Meeple (and all the chicks that you guys hire to attract the crowd =p) for the demo game of Ticket to Ride and also Space Hulk : Death Angel (I'm glad we haven't dabble the territory of Horus Heresy the boardgame..kekekeke)
And finally, to Chang, the organizer of the event, thank you very, very much for this awesome event! I will be there for the next Magacon! I've never anticipate this kind of convention will be available in Malaysia and you guys make it happen!
After all the shout out and all that, below is some *personal opinion* that Magacon can.. well, improve for the coming years, I'm well aware that this is only the first year and things could be in chaos, I'm very sure it will be much, much better in the coming years!
My Rant:
1.) The official site and the information available on it - well, it's not quite matching with the actual time table of the event itself, and the information available on it is quite scarce, I would say, maybe next year you could update the time table beforehand, say, one week in advance, instead of just announcing it on the day itself? Folks can be better planned for what they want to participate based on the time table on the official site.
2.) This is just for GW related product - dude, hire more chicks (or dude) to attract the crowd (Meeple is doing this right, their promoter actually approach the crowd to pull them into the boardgame area). And also, some eye catching banner/poster won't be a bad idea (MTG/ASUS is doing this right, when you walk past the area, you will know, oh, this is Magic the Gathering, oh, this is Asus, oh, this is something called Meeple), more table for painting/game demo, and also, if you are going to do the achievement thingy (I personally think this is a GREAT IDEA), get more man power to oversee each achievement or assign a dedicated personel (with GW shirt, maybe?) to oversee a couple groups of participant, or maybe even setup a timetable for when can we get an achievement at where, instead of putting all this on one person to oversee everything (far as I know, there is only Salleh), so folks can get more involve in this fun activity that could open doors to a lifetime of fun hobby! As a participant, it was quite clueless where can we find someone to "certified" our achievement at first, and sometime when we want to get a certain achievement, Salleh is not available because he is engaging in oversee-ing other participant ~_~
WOW! Dang! This is the longest post for this blog!
